Posted
by
CmdrTaco
on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @02:43PM
from the here-comes-the-hatemail dept.

Kilrah_il writes "When the Apollo 12 crew left Earth for a trip to the Moon, they did not know that the ground crew hid a surprise in one of the command module lockers: a calendar photo of Playboy Playmate DeDe Lind. Now this card is offered for auction, after being kept in the personal collection of command module pilot Richard Gordon, who added the following memo: 'This is to certify that the accompanying 4.5" x 6.25" cue card did, indeed, accompany me on my trip to the moon in the Command Module Yankee Clipper aboard the historic Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. This cue card, which flew with me to the moon, has been in my sole possession and part of my personal space collection since my return from the moon in 1969 aboard America's second lunar landing mission, and it remains one of the all-time greatest Apollo era astronaut "Gotcha's!"' For those interested, the minimum bid is $1000." Warning, contains pixelated nudity.

"Houston, I'm sending both of the other Astronauts out for a spacewalk. I found this Playmate photo here, and need some private time to have a wank. Ha! All you 'mile high club' folks can kiss my hairy ass. I'm halfway to the moon and having 'one off the wrist'! Beat that!"

He was alone in lunar orbit for more than a full day while Conrad and Bean landed on the moon. If he took advantage of his solitude to "rub one out", he probably would have done so while on the far side of the moon, where his biomed telemetry couldn't be monitored by Houston.:)

His crewmates also had some porn stashed with them on the moon. Playboy images were inserted into the lunar surface checklists used during the moonwalks.

I know of no Medicine fit to diminish
the violent natural inclination you mention; and if I did, I think
I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy.
It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which
you will find solid Happiness. Your Reason against entering into
it at present appears to be not well founded. The Circumstantial
Advantages you have in View by Postponing it, are not only uncertain,
but they are small in comparison with the Thing itself, the being
married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that makes
the complete Being. Separate she wants his force of Body and Strength
of Reason; he her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together
they are most likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not
nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete
Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissors.

If you get a prudent, healthy wife, your
Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune
sufficient.

But if you will not take this Counsel,
and persist in thinking that Commerce with the Sex is inevitable,
then I repeat my former Advice that in your Amours you should prefer
old Women to young ones. This you call a Paradox, and demand
my reasons. They are these:

1. Because they have more Knowledge of the world, and their Minds
are better stored with Observations; their conversation is more improving,
and more lastingly agreeable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.
To maintain their Influence over Man, they supply the Diminution
of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a thousand
Services, small and great, and are the most tender and useful of
Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence
there is hardly such a thing to be found as an Old Woman who is not
a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of children, which irregularly produced
may be attended with much inconvenience.

4. Because through more Experience they are more prudent and discreet
in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with
them is therefore safer with regard to your reputation; and regard
to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People
might be inclined to excuse an old Woman, who would kindly take care
of a young Man, form his manners by her good Councils, and prevent
his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of
the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part.
The Face first grows lank and Wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast
and Arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever;
so that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what
is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old
one from a young one. And as in the Dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure
of Corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal and frequently
superior; every Knack being by Practice capable by improvement.

6. Because the sin is less. The Debauching of a Virgin may be her
Ruin, and make her Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may
give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend making
an old Woman happy.

8. 8th & lastly. They are so grateful!!!

Thus much for my Paradox. But still I
advise you to marry immediately; being sincerely

... by Jimi Hendrix. I'm in my early 30's, and personally, I think the women from the late 60's are just plain gorgeous. Not hyped up, no plastic surgery, just a bit of makeup... But maybe i'm just one of those ala natural guys when it comes to women.

You are not alone. 1966 through 1973 was a magical time. The sexual revolution was in full swing but the style was still natural, innocent and unconsciously sexual. There hasn't been anything like it since.

It could just be a trend in playboy. I've heard they shifted away from girls who looked "next door" to more glamorous. Or was it the other way around? I can't remember, don't care enough to google it at work. And no playboy models, past or present, looked like girls who ever lived next door to me.

In the 90s something happened and the publishers started using less attractive women with a lot of cosmetic surgery and makeup applied, and manipulating them more.

By "publishers" you mean "Hugh Hefner" who as far as I know is still putting every issue together himself, he certainly was up until very recently if he's not now. Did you see the blondie barbie twinks he had on his show? Blame Hef directly. Unless you meant porn mag publishers in general.

Stop judging women based on movies and TV. Check out the midwest -- the average woman is 5'1" and overweight.

Have the women in Playboy and on TV gotten prettier and prettier? Yes, but it's no different than the trend of professional wrestlers becoming more and more muscular. Population has increased, new medical procedures/work-out practices are taken advantage of, and the cream of the crop is oh so much creamier. But that doesn't mean that normal looking people ceased to exist, nor does it mean that, in ge

It was the 60s. You couldn't just download stuff.
You paid real money for paper boobies, and you took what
you could get.

That aside, this chick has a fat face and appears to
be wearing a wig. Natural beauties with better features
and hair that looks real were plentiful back then I'm sure.
Maybe Hef could explain how she got
to be in the magazine (wink).

According to a recent (like last week) article, Hef is still CEO and still has creative control over the magazine. Moreover, he's currently trying to buy it back from it's current owners and take it private.

Actually, anthropological studies show that men all over the world prefer a woman with a certain hip to waist ratio. The actual size of the woman is much less important than the fact that she has big hips relative to her waist. Culturally speaking, we may despise "fat" women and find them less desirable based on what others might think of them, but as long as she has a good hip to waist ratio, our cocks couldn't care less how fat she is.

Personally, I like real women, warts and... no, on second thought, I can do without the warts.

Nipples too pointy, TRIM IN HALF?!? No, no, no, just... no. Do not trim the nipples in half, please. I mean, they aren't, like, two inches long or an anything, right? Because, okay, if her nipples reach down to her waist, yeah, maybe trim those suckers.

Being offended is a quick and easy power trip: it's a way to control other people.

"Oh I'm offended by your actions! And because I'm offended, YOU are the one that has to change their behavior! Because I can't be troubled to: turn off the TV, radio, computer; change channels or web page; not buy the book; etc.. And no, I am unable to monitor my children therefore; everyone else has to change their behavior just so my children don't see or hear anything that I may find offensive."

Oh, toddle off. As a member of the moral community, I can definitively say that the vast majority of us have no interesting in micromanaging your life.

Could you do us all a favour then and tell your "minority" to STFU? When you let them do all the talking, they'll naturally come to represent both them and you.

Getting back on topic, this story is more than a little disconcerting. I was raised to believe that the Moon landings represented the pinnacle of American gumption, values, and achievement. And now, all of these years later, we discover that this seminal event was corrupted by the presence of hardcore pornography. Maybe I shouldn't act surprised, but I always thought that the NASA astronauts were better people than that.

Read The Right Stuff. They weren't better men, they were adventurous men. Your mistake.

Oh, toddle off. As a member of the moral community, I can definitively say that the vast majority of us have no interesting in micromanaging your life.

Could you do us all a favour then and tell your "minority" to STFU? When you let them do all the talking, they'll naturally come to represent both them and you.

Does this mean you don't consider yourself to be a part of the moral community? So how do you feel about genocide. ..

I certainly don't find nudie photos to be immoral unless they are of children or heinously violent acts, but I still consider myself to be a part of the moral community. Just like everyone else who refrains from killing not because it's illegal but because it's morally wrong. To exclude yourself from the moral community implies that you have no sense of right and wrong. Or, to put it another

I do consider myself part of the moral community, as long as we remember that every has 'em and they're subjective as hell. Your genocide comment is a good example of that, as history is replete with genocidal monsters who considered it a moral value or objective (as did their followers).

As for the first part of my post, I'm just sick of these individuals piping up with "I associate with these people but they don't speak for me" crap. Maybe if you spoke up more often, and to them especially, you wouldn

>> And now, all of these years later, we discover that this seminal event was corrupted by the presence of hardcore pornography.

I can't find the original message, so must reply to a reply. I finally got access to the actual image and... Hardcore? Really? Really?? You can see as much on Miami beach these days. I suspect that the author either hasn't seen the image and is guessing at the content, or has a definition of "hardcore" that would include Vanity Fair, Elle and Shape.

Think about it... you're talking about a person who has been brainwashed to be offended by::gasp:: nakedness! Hell, they'd be offended if there was a Sears catalog on the mission without the underware section removed.

Can we mod this guy +1 troll? Fantastic trolling-- the fake sincerity, the butt-hurt tone, the puritanical finger wagging hinted at in the phrase "you know where to go when 'the day' comes", the mis-identification of a nice topless model shot with the "hardcore pornography"...

As a professional care-troll, your lack of commitment to care-trolling offends me. Do you really expect anyone reading this pathetic attempt at trolling to believe you actually care about this issue? You, sir, bring disrepute upon the house of troll.

That picture looks like one of my grandma's college pictures, with more clothes. [correction. Grandma's pix had more clothes]
You sound like one of my mom's friends. And damn it, I am, well I was, a scientist too!